The Raman effect : a unified treatment of the theory of raman scattering by molecules

Preface Part One Linear Raman Spectroscopy 1 Survey of light--scattering phenomena 2 Introduction to theoretical treatments of incoherent light scattering 3 Classical theory of Rayleigh and Raman scattering 4 Quantum mechanical theory of Rayleigh and Raman scattering 5 Vibrational Raman scattering 6 Rotational and vibration--rotation Raman scattering 7 Vibrational resonance Raman scattering 8 Rotational and vibration--rotation resonance Raman scattering 9 Normal and resonance electronic and vibronic Raman scattering 10 Rayleigh and raman scattering by chiral systems Part Two Appendices -- a compendium of mathematical and physical tools Introduction Appendix 1 The right--handed cartesian axis system and related coordinate systems Appendix 2 The summation convention Appendix 3 Direction cosines Appendix 4 Isotropic averages of products of direction cosines Appendix 5 The Euler angles and the rotation operator Appendix 6 Complex numbers and quantities Appendix 7 Some properties of matrices Appendix 8 Vectors I Appendix 9 Vectors II Appendix 10 Tensors Appendix 11 Elescrostatics Appendix 12 Appendix 13 The interaction of a system of electric charges with electric and magnetic fields Appendix 14 The polarizability tensor Appendix 15 Appendix 16 Maxwell equations in vacuum and in media Appendix 17 Monochromatic plane harmonic waves in vacuum and in a non--absorbing linear medium Appendix 18 Appendix 19 Appendix 20 Sources of electromagentic radiation Appendix 21 Polarization of electromagnetic radiation Appendix 22 Appendix 23 Clebsch--Gordan coeeficients and Wigner 3--j and 6--j symbols